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Tom Newton Dunn

OPINION - British politicians might not like it, but here are five lessons they can learn from Donald Trump

Until November 5 this year, Donald Trump’s first presidential term looked like a populist blip amid decades of American liberalism. Since the US election, it looks like Biden was the liberal blip in a new era of populism.

Over here, we now wonder what that makes Sir Keir Starmer. Instead of the return to Westminster business as usual, perhaps he’s just the ad break before Nigel Farage’s even bigger populist wave breaks over Britain.

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